James Webb Space Telescope Finds a Hot Jupiter Roasting on a 111-Day Skewer
Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet HD 80606 b with Jupiter. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Jupiter’s cloud tops hover around –145°C.…
James Webb reveals a hellish exoplanet where dawn and dusk have wildly different chemistry
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121…
JWST finds rare planet with different atmospheric conditions at dawn and dusk
WASP-121 b is split between extremes. One side faces its star nonstop and burns at about 2,770 Kelvin.…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Hidden ‘Galaxy Killer’ Lurking in the Early Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a cosmic catastrophe, as winds extinguished a star-forming galaxy in…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope found a Saturn-sized planet with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere |
Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies…
NASA Finds a “Goldilocks” Giant Planet Wrapped in Methane
Artist’s impression of a gas giant planet orbiting its distant host star. New research, led by astronomers at…
This Alien Planet Has Rock Clouds That Vaporize Before Sunset
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
James Webb Space Telescope Spots an Early Galaxy with an Odd Feature That’s Defying Expectations
Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have led to the surprising discovery that an ancient, distant…
JWST Identifies LAP1-B as the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy on Record: Chemistry of Universe’s First Stars
A tiny galaxy observed just 800 million years after the Big Bang has yielded the strongest observational evidence…